Wendy van Dijk
@wgavandijk.bsky.social
Programmer. Female. Business woman. Married with another woman since 2005 (together since 1986). Open source. Vegetarian. The Netherlands. Classic liberal. Pro-EU. Metalhead. Pro-Ukraine. I am T, B, A and Q in LGBTQIA+.
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
@liztormato.bsky.social published another Rakudo Weekly Newsletter, and starts with a blog, 'Forever Language', by Tim Nelson. Also, three Raku videos from the TPRC are available. rakudoweekly.blog/2026/08/03/2... #rakulang
2026.31 Forever Language
Which programming language should you learn? Tim Nelson has the answer! Raku is the Language Best Suited to be your Forever Language Tim Nelson makes the case for using the Raku Programming Languag…
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Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
Trump Day 559: Trump calls off attack on Iran; insists damage to Reflecting Pool caused by vandalism; launches API offering rapid access to his social media for $100,000 a month; Capital One closed Trump’s bank accounts due to money-laundering risks: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-55...
Trump Day 559: Trump says he will call off an attack on Iran provided Iran reaches an agreement quickly; insists damage to Reflecting Pool was caused by vandalism; launches API offering companies rapi...
New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 559. – Trump threatens to arrest Todd Blanche as acting Attorney General and says he will retain the $1.8 billion fund against ‘weaponizat...
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Look. Fauci is not above criticism. As I and many Black health professionals have said many times before, Fauci's decisions lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. At first, most of these deaths were Black people. Later, most were white people. As we said would happen.
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
@todymotmot@mastodon.social @heathen_cat@furs.social Here's what I know about the "China CDC🤡" Fauci lied at least three times. Once, when he said that people didn't need to buy N95 equivalent mask...
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Beer for the first person to post a picture or video of one of these on fire.
Euromaidan Press@euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 4d agoRussia's rarest armored vehicle just broke cover in Ukraine for the first time this year. The BMP-T Terminator—48 tons, twin 30-mm cannons, five crew—was built to escort tanks and shred infantry ambushers.
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com. Inspired by recent news about the SpudCell. NS subscribers can read about it here: www.newscientist.com/article/2532...
Can the Republican Party please change its name to Imperial Party? Then words make sense again. And while you're at it, please change your color. All over the world, red is associated with solidarity. Brown seems more appropriate for a personality cult like the present-day GOP.
Wat zijn eigenlijk de voorstellen van de boeren zélf om de stikstofuitstoot te verminderen? En de waterkwaliteit te verbeteren en de uitstoot van methaan en lachgas te verminderen? Waar kan ik die vinden? Boerenprotesten tegen stikstofplannen langs meerdere wegen in het land - nos.nl/l/2624641
Boerenprotesten tegen stikstofplannen langs meerdere wegen in het land
De actievoerders willen dat het kabinet de aangekondigde stikstofplannen intrekt.
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Steve Roe did the Rakudo Weekly for a year, and is now on to other activities. @lizmat is at it again, and wrote about the past three weeks, starting with a thank you to Steve, describing lots of the work he did for Raku. rakudoweekly.blog/2026/07/27/2... #rakulang
2026.28/29/30 Thank you!
After having done the Rakudo Weekly for a year, Steve Roe indicated that they needed a break from doing the Rakudo Weekly, and from Raku more generally. I would like to thank Steve for their work o…
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People embracing a racist who trashes US democracy because she also now supports Ukraine need to understand what they are supporting. You must own this as well. There is one side in support of freedom and the rule of law, and this is not on that side.
Trump Day 552: Forest in Minnesota not thinned after DOGE budget cuts now on fire; a million American children lost food aid following Trump’s intervention; Trump’s approval rating among GOP rises to 83%; Court upholds ban on Trump’s postal voting rules: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-55...
Trump Day 552: Brazil refuses visas to US officials seeking to criticise electoral system; forest in Minnesota that was not thinned following DOGE budget cuts is now on fire; a million American childr...
New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 552. - The Trump administration plans to send two high-ranking officials to Brazil to speak out regarding the electoral system before th...
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the stuff academics will do to avoid writing 4 bullet points for their course page on the website.
Richard de Nooy@richarddenooy.bsky.social · 2w ago“Oxford academic Prof George Garnett counted 93 penises in 2018 – with 88 belonging to horses and another five to men. But Dr Christopher Monk said he had counted one more on another man.” bbc.com/news/article...
🤯 Russian tourists squeeze sick dolphin to death after it washes ashore. A weakened bottlenose dolphin died on a beach in Russia's Anapa after tourists repeatedly touched, dragged, and took photos with the animal instead of calling rescuers.
This is a perfect illustration of why I have no faith in US mainstream journalism to protect us from anything.🤷🏿♂️ This is their idea of holding some people accountable: going to their banquets and causing fleeting, awkward moments, seconds before accepting an award from them and shaking their hand.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2w agoWolf Blitzer just presented the Wall Street Journal an award for uncovering Trump's ties to Epstein and reveals Trump doxxed the journalist's home address in his lawsuit causing her to move. Trump is sitting humiliated on stage as Karoline Leavitt comforts him.
Trump Day 551: Trump calls LeBron James ‘possible racist’, wants to exclude legal migrants from census, department admits that cutting subsidies was move against Democrats, WSJ receives award in Trump’s presence for exposing links between Epstein and Trump: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-55...
Trump Day 551: Trump calls LeBron James ‘possible racist’, puts up warning signs at museum over ‘misrepresentation of history’, wants to exclude legal migrants from census, department admits that cutt...
New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 551. – Trump says that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin personally assured him that China and Russia will not supply weapons to Iran. He warn...
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Oh, we're putting tariffs on countries that don't do enough to stop slave labor? Can we tariff ourselves? Because the US has the largest slave labor population in the world! Again, periodic reminder that our slave labor population is larger than the workforce of Norway. Not a typo.
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 9mo ago🤡I love it when US folk unironically try to reply to a Black civil rights advocate🙋🏿♂️, about how it's bad to enslave people to make cars. Your car parts were made in a jail by a Black man that has not been convicted of any crime. The US prison labor population is larger than the workforce of Norway.
He’s tweeting from prison about not having contact with the outside world. I think we’re all on Team Cannibal now.
